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WEDNESDAY EDITION: I just noticed a prediction of 50 mph winds and 19-29 inches of snow on Saturday, oh well it is winter....if Russia invades the Ukraine, what will happen to RigExperts products?....The James Webb space telescope completed its final post-launch course correction on its final orbit, which is approximately 1 million miles away from Earth.....This bit of crazy just in from the scientific world: Iranian scientist wants to shift Earth's orbit with asteroids as a long-term solution for global warming and climate change....... European Russia special event...celebrating invasia of Ukraine?Radio amateurs from St.
Petersburg and the Leningrad
Region will activate the
following special event/memorial Activity is to commemorate/dedicate the 78th anniversary of full removal of enemy blockade of Leningrad and 77th anniversary Victories of the Soviet people in the Second World War. Operations will be on various
HF bands and is good towards a
FREE "Blockade" diploma (see,
http://www.alrs.info/articles.php?article_id=10 Wake of BombingThe Amateur Radio Emergency Service® (ARES®) team of Centralia, Washington, activated following an early morning bombing on December 19. Authorities say two men planted the bomb, which blew up the ATM at a local bank. The Washington State Patrol Bomb Squad and the FBI responded to assist the Centralia Police Department (CPD) in the investigation. The Centralia ARES team staged its communications van next to the scene. The 13 ARES team members who responded to a call for assistance were paired with CPD detectives to assist in the evidence search at the crime scene. ARES team members had been trained to perform evidence searches for the police department and were able to put those skills to work. Teams of three to five ARES members, led by a detective, gloved up and slowly searched an estimated 10,000 square feet around the bank, along nearby railroad tracks, and an adjoining field, retrieving as many potential pieces of evidence as they could find. The ARES team was released after about 1 hour. — Thanks to Bob Willey, KD7OWN, Centralia, Washington, ARES Emergency Coordinator Packet Pioneer Brian Rogers, N1URO, SKPacket Radio Pioneer Brian Rogers, N1URO, of Unionville, Connecticut, died on January 4. An ARRL member, he was 58. Rogers was considered a core contributor to amateur packet radio dating to the 1990s. Licensed in 1995, he focused on classic packet and 802.11/high-speed protocols, developed the URONode packet radio software, and was an avid packet user and contributor to various software packages. Professionally, he was an IT consultant and the proprietor of Continuum Connecticut. TUESDAY EDITION: TRIVIA: Where was the first drive-in restaurant? - A: Royce Hailey's Pig Stand opened in Dallas in 1921...:What car was the first to have it's radio antenna embedded in the windshield? A: The 1969 Pontiac Grand Prix. What did the Olds designation 4-4-2 stand for? A: 4 barrel carburetor, 4 speed transmission, and dual exhaust....Maybe metal detecting is a good hobby....Don't mess with a bunch of female lions....Militarized Dolphins Protect Almost a Quarter of the US Nuclear Stockpile ....2022 Ford Bronco Raptor: Widebody, 37-Inch Tires, More Than 400 HP Nasa spots solar explosion with the potential to cause radio blackouts on EarthNasa has caught sight of an
explosion more than 100 million
km from Earth. Source: Metro by Anugraha
Sundaravelu Bouvet Island DXpedition newsThe following was posted on the 3Y0J FaceBook page by Ken, LA7GIA, on January 22nd, with pictures and videos Today the 3Y0J team spent a full day offshore @ Ulsteinvik, Norway . Together with Captain Arnt Skinnes and his 3 crew members on Stero we tested the unmanned zodiak landing, where the purpose is to land zodiak with equipment in a safe way. We drove 16h with car from Oslo to the 3Y0J test site. During the testing Stero ended up in rescuing a FRC boat drifting with broken engine in heavy sea. This cut short our testing a bit but further testing will be carried out in our mission to activate this rare #2 DXCC Bouvet island. After a successful weekend we return home and will continue working on the logistic concepts. Follow our journey to Bouvet! For the pictures and videos, go to: https://www.facebook.com/groups/3093983840726129 Launch of a wooden satellite still pendingTwo spacecraft comprised of wood or using wooden framing are hoping to launch this year and next. One will carry an amateur radio payload. WISA Woodsat, a Finnish spacecraft that planned to include an amateur radio payload, was forced to postpone its announced launch target from 2021 to 2022 after the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) Amateur Satellite Frequency Coordination system turned away its request to use amateur radio frequencies. “I regret to inform you that IARU is not in a position to support the WISA Woodsat Coordination request,” the coordinator said. “The main reason is that the primary mission doesn’t seem to be an amateur mission.” As announced last year, WISA Woodsat was designed to accommodate multiple missions — from materials science, space education, and awareness to promoting and facilitating amateur radio communication with and via satellites. No transponder was on board, but the satellite’s sponsors said they had the support of Finland’s IARU member-society, SRAL, to use amateur radio frequencies. They are now reworking the spacecraft to use commercial radio frequencies. “To our great disappointment, we can’t serve the radio amateur community with the LoRa-repeater mission as we had hoped and planned. We will continue to share the pictures and data online, but the technical aspect has been diminished due to this decision,” said WISA Woodsat’s Chief Engineer Samuli Nyman of Arctic Astronautics. Meanwhile, LignoSat, a 1U-sized CubeSat with an outside structure mainly composed of wood, has applied for IARU frequency coordination and hopes to launch from the ISS in 2023. Built by students at Japan’s Kyoto University, LignoSat includes a unique amateur radio payload but not a transponder. The LignoSat application for IARU Satellite Frequency Coordination in December said the CubeSat would carry amateur radio equipment that will extract call signs of amateur radio stations from uplinked FM packet signals and respond to them via the CW downlink and the sender’s call signs to convey thank you messages. The plan proposes UHF downlinks for CW and FM. The satellite’s development team, comprised of Kyoto University and Sumitomo Forestry Company, said it’s aiming to harness the environmental friendliness and the economy of wood in spacecraft development. They say a satellite with a wooden exterior would burn up upon re-entering Earth’s atmosphere at the end of its mission, lessening its burden on the environment. The wooden framework also will permit the satellite’s antennas to be inside the spacecraft. A plan is under way to use an experimental apparatus on the International Space Station to hold wooden sheets of varying hardness, taken from several tree species, attached. These would remain exposed to the space environment for about 9 months to determine their deterioration. The team is headed by Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Tako Doi. Now a Kyoto University professor, Doi was the first JAXA astronaut to take part in spacewalks from the shuttle Columbia in 1997. He said the concept, if successful, could lead the way to “allowing even children who are interested in space to make a satellite.” LignoSat would be deployed from the ISS in July 2023. MONDAY EDITION: Dropped in and said hello on 3928 yesterday and the question of the day was "what did you do today that was fun or interesting?". The most interesting answer came from Kriss, he was trying to unsuccessfully take a shaft out of his boat. I came in second with grabbing all the Xfiniti cable gear and toss it in a box for return to the cable outfit....what a boring group we are...Tennessee ham article.... The Space Weather WomanThe latest space weather forecast from Dr Tamitha Skov WX6SWW
The 35th Annual NASWA Winter SWL FestivalMarch
4-5, 2022, Online using the Zoom
webinar platform. The Fest is sponsored by
NASWA, the
North American Shortwave
Association, but it
covers much more than just
shortwave; mediumwave (AM),
scanning, satellite TV, and
pirate broadcasting are among
the other topics that the Fest
covers. Whether you've been to
every Fest (all 34, starting
with the first year at the
fabled Pink & Purple Room of the
Fiesta Motor Inn) or this year's
will be your first, you're sure
to find a welcome from your
fellow hobbyists, even if it’s a
virtual' welcome!. Radio to the rescueThe Georgetown Gazette
reports the most recent
series of storms shows how
amateur radio can play a
vital role during
power/communications outages
WEEKEND EDITION: 2 degrees this morning and snowing on the island, you have to love New England. It won't be too long before I am fishing........What is the doomsday clock counting towards?......In the event of a war in Ukraine you may want to remove your back up hard drives from the internet....Secrets revealed of submarine hidden on ocean floor for 80 years .... Foundations of Amateur RadioBringing an upconverter into your life A couple of days ago, after months of anticipation, an unassuming little box arrived on my doorstep. Inside the box was a nondescript electronic device with two SMA connectors and a USB socket. Other than the branding, there were no markings on the device and it came without any instructions. It did come with a couple of SMA adaptors, which came in handy. A little research later determined which of the two SMA adaptors connected to an antenna and which connected to a radio. The gadget itself is called an upconverter. It's an interesting little device that essentially mixes two frequencies together, creating two new ones, start with say 720 kHz and mix it with 120 MHz and you end up with 120.720 MHz and 119.28 MHz. In other words, if you mix two frequencies together, you end up with both the sum and the difference of those frequencies. If you have a radio that can listen to 120 MHz, but cannot listen to 720 kHz, then using an upconverter, you can, as it were, expand the frequency range of your radio to hear different signals. I purchased the upconverter with the intent of connecting it to my PlutoSDR, since the lowest frequency it can do is 70 MHz. Combine the two and I should be able to listen to all of the amateur HF frequencies at once. Given that my PlutoSDR is currently doing something else, I had a look at using the upconverter with my WSPR beacon monitor that uses an RTL-SDR dongle. Technically it's not required, since my particular dongle can be used to tune to HF frequencies, but as an experiment, it works well enough. So, I connected the antenna to the upconverter, the upconverter to the dongle and the dongle to a Raspberry Pi, a single board computer that runs Linux. Essentially the exact same setup I've been running for years, except that I inserted the upconverter between the dongle and the antenna. That and some power took care of the hardware. The software initially gave me some challenges. After discovering that the tool I'm using, rtlsdr_wsprd, has an option for an upconverter, I was up and running in minutes. So, at the moment, and for the next foreseeable little while, my WSPR monitor is using an upconverter to scan HF. Technically this should increase the sensitivity by a significant amount, since the dongle is better suited to tuning to higher frequencies than it is to lower ones, but only time will tell. I updated my monitoring scripts to take into account if the frequency I was monitoring was out of range, so it currently won't report on anything above 60 MHz, but then that's fine for what I'm working on. I've updated the script on github if you want to have a look. It's nothing fancy, it essentially checks to see if there's a file called upconverter and if so, it calls a slightly different monitoring script. Given that I have existing logging data associated with this monitor, I should be able to discover if there's any significant difference between what I've been monitoring to date and what's coming in now that an upconverter is in the listening chain. Theoretically, I should be able to hear weaker signals, but time will tell. One thing that was interesting whilst I was discovering how this all works and hangs together is that it wasn't immediately obvious how to set it all up in software. I tried several tools to make sense of the data. In the end the combination of gqrx, setting the local oscillator offset to a negative frequency, in my case 120 MHz, got me to the point where I could set the frequency to 720 kHz and hear my local broadcast station, whilst the software actually, secretly behind the scenes, added 120 MHz to that and tuned the radio to 120.720 MHz. Once I got my head around that, things started falling into place. The same is true for rtlsdr_wsprd, adding the upconverter flag with the value of 120MHz, got my monitoring station up and running. This is a pretty user friendly way of getting started with frequency mixers. You might recall my exploration into components apparently made from unobtainium. The intent is to use a variable frequency to achieve a similar thing, but that's a project still on the drawing board, for now, I have a fixed frequency, 120 MHz, which is plenty to get started. If you're curious why I'd want a stable variable frequency, consider for example, what might happen if you transmit from a HF frequency into an upconverter. Perhaps you could use your HF capable WSPR beacon to make a signal on 2m or 70cm. 120 MHz won't cut it, but perhaps you can work out what's needed to get from the 10m WSPR band to the 2m WSPR band, or the 70cm WSPR band. I'm Onno VK6FLAB 5 reasons to attend March 12-13 QSO Today Virtual Ham ExpoOur next QSO Today Virtual Ham Expo will be held live from March 12-13, and then on-demand for 30 days afterwards. We promise an amazing learning and networking experience to help you improve your amateur radio knowledge and get exposed to new ideas, equipment, and practical techniques. No need to travel - participate from your home or office! Information can be found at https://www.qsotodayhamexpo.com. Here are 5 reasons why you must attend: Listen, engage with 60+ internationally recognized ham radio luminaries. Our speakers are experts and deeply know their material. Most importantly, they’ve worked hard to make sure that you’ll understand the material and can apply it immediately to your projects. So, so many different topics - everybody will find something of high value. There’s content for everyone whether a newly licensed ham looking for next steps to using that license or a 30+ year experienced ham looking for new projects. Some of the more interesting presentations include: Core HF Communication Concepts: Fundamentals of Shortwave Propagation; Deep Dive of An FPGA DVB-S2 Implementation; Fun With The NanoVNA; and Helically Wound Vertical for 160M. Click Here for Presentation List Watch as many presentations as you want! A big limitation of in-person events is that you can’t watch many of the presentations (you can only be in one room at a time). At the Expo, return anytime within 30 days to view any speakers and presentations you missed as well as explore exhibitor offerings. Check out our live Kumospace video lounges for attendees to interact with each other and exhibitors. At the Expo we’ll debut exciting but proven technology to further improve the live video interaction experience with exhibitors and fellow operators. You’ll find this is a great way to meet up with friends, talk to vendors, and network on specific subject areas. Take advantage of our calendar technology to efficiently organize your time. Once our presentations are scheduled, you can download speaker times in your local time zone directly to your Google or Outlook calendar. You’ll then have a complete schedule of sessions to join to maximize your time during the Live period with speakers that are the most important. ARRL, the national association for Amateur Radio®, is a QSO Today Virtual Ham Expo Partner. FlexRadio is the Expo’s Platinum Sponsor, Elecraft is our Gold sponsor as of this time. Early Bird Tickets will go on sale February 1st, 2022, and are just $10 (through March 6) and then $13.50 to the end of the on-demand period. Tickets include entry for the Live 2 day period and the 30 day on-demand period. Save on gas, lodging, and transit time to attend the QSO Today Virtual Ham Expo on March 12th and 13th. For more information, go to https://www.qsotodayhamexpo.com Portugal acts against radio interferenceIARU-R1 reports Portugal's
communications regulator ANACOM
acts to eradicate interference
and abuse of radio spectrum
The actions were carried
out in the ports of Póvoa de
Varzim, Vila do Conde; Viana
do Castelo; Caminha; Aveiro;
Leixões; on the Douro
River—Cais da Alfândega
(Porto) and Cais da Lixa
(Gondomar); and in Peniche.
In total, 20 vessels were
checked, for coastal
fishing, distant fishing,
hotel ships and pleasure
boats.
In these joint actions with the Maritime Police, the most frequently detected violations or anomalies are related to the use of frequencies not authorized or not assigned to the maritime mobile service. In some cases, non-certified equipment or equipment not suitable for use on vessels, as well as unauthorized radiocommunication encryption devices, were detected. In these actions, ANACOM carries out inspections on the equipment, and it is up to the Maritime Police to take the necessary measures.“
Amateur Radio Newsline Report FRIDAY EDITION: Woke up to a dusting of snow on the driveway and pretty damn cold out there...Can you use a scanner in your car? Answer: Peace officers, the State Patrol, and people with an amateur radio license issued by the Federal Communications Commission are allowed to have a scanner in their vehicle. Emergency response personnel are also allowed to use scanners if they’re employed or authorized by the federal government, the state, or a political subdivision to provide fire suppression, police protection, emergency medical services, or emergency activities relating to health and safety and in compliance with the requirements of the state statute...... Extended ARRL team will support February's ARRL National Convention in OrlandoA large ARRL team of
member-volunteers, program
representatives, and
presenters will advance the
convention theme inviting
attendees to reDiscover
Radio at
Orlando HamCation, host
of the 2022 ARRL National
Convention February 10 – 13.
A
wide-ranging roster of
workshops, exhibits, and
activities will educate and
entertain radio amateurs
committed to developing
knowledge and skills in
radio technology and radio
communication. ARRL is sponsoring three forums at HamCation:
Thursday’s Training
Tracks at the DoubleTree
Hotel are organized as
all-day workshops led by
experienced presenters.
Four tracks being
offered include Contest
University (CTU),
Emergency Communications
Academy, Hands-On
Handbook, and
Technology Academy.
Registration includes a
seat at the National
Convention Luncheon,
which will feature a
keynote address by David
Minster. Two radio amateurs appointed to the FCC Technological Advisory Council (TAC)FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel named two prominent radio amateurs among her appointments to the FCC Technological Advisory Council (TAC) on January 19. Appointed were Greg Lapin, N9GL, and Michelle Thompson, W5NYV. Lapin chairs the ARRL RF Safety Committee and has represented ARRL The National Association for Amateur Radio on the TAC since 2001. on the TAC since 2001. ARRL Laboratory Manager Ed Hare, W1RFI, noted that Lapin has been involved with RF safety and the FCC since the last FCC significant rules changes in 1998, he said. "He is again helping the FCC prepare information on OET Bulletin 65 Supplement B for amateur radio, giving guidance for amateurs who need to comply with the FCC rules on RF exposure. His work is highly respected by the FCC and the ARRL Lab, making it easier for amateurs to evaluate their stations.” Thompson is CEO of the Open Research Institute (ORI), which she will represent on the TAC. ORI is a non-profit research and development organization dedicated to open-source work that includes such areas as amateur satellites and digital communications. She is an ARRL Life Member. Thompson will discuss “Digital Communications Technology” on February 10 at the ARRL National Convention in Orlando, as part of the Technology Academy workshop Track. The TAC serves to assist the FCC in identifying important areas of innovation and developing informed technology policies that support US competitiveness in the global economy. The TAC will consider and advise the FCC on topics such as 6G, artificial intelligence, advanced spectrum-sharing technologies, and emerging wireless technologies, including new tools to restore internet access during shutdowns and other disruptions. The TAC will hold its first meeting of the year on February 28. Germany's ham radio society hit by cyber attackThe national society for
German radio amateurs,
DARC, was hit by a
cyber attack on January 15. As
of January 20 their website was
still down THURSDAY EDITION: Hey Riley, 3927 is a qrming nightmare evenings, when is your team going to crack down on them? ....Welcome to the home of DXLog.net, ham radio contest logging software by 9A5K. The software is free of charge, donated to the ham radio community by Krassy K1LZ and a small team donating their time and effort. ....COVID Pandemic May Have Driven a Flu Strain Into Extinction ....Telecoms delay 5G launch near airports, but some airlines are canceling flights ...The Army is staging a "Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft" competition and there's a reason why this headline has the Cool tag
HAM
MEETS MILITARY FCC Seeks Attorney-Advisor for its Mobility DivisionThe Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has posted an opening for an attorney-advisor in the Mobility Division of its Wireless Telecommunications Bureau in Washington, DC. As a principal attorney with mid-to-senior level responsibilities, the individual’s job duties would include working on policy, rulemaking, and legal issues; drafting Commission- and Bureau-level rulemaking and adjudication decisions, and reviewing proposed legislation, rulemakings, orders, and changes to regulations. According to the FCC website, the Mobility Division is “responsible for developing policy and rules that facilitate rapid, widespread deployment of wireless communications services. Along with the Broadband Division, it oversees nearly 2 million licenses used to provide an array of wireless services. The Mobility Division helps carry out the [Broadband Personal Communications Service], to private land mobile used for dispatch and remote monitoring of equipment, to maritime and aviation, to personal use such as ham radio.” ARRL CEO David Minster, NA2AA, has suggested that the position listing be shared by ARRL members who know an attorney interested in communications law and who has an amateur license. “This non-supervisory position is at the top of the government pay scale. I would urge any amateur who is an attorney and has several years of experience to apply — especially if they are interested in wireless,” Minster said. The deadline to apply for this opening is January 28, 2022. Networks of ServicePresident of The American
Legion Amateur Radio Club
(TALARC), Marty Justis
W9WMJ, writes about
Amateur Radio and the Legion QST magazine looks at Diversity and InclusionIn the February 2022
issue of QST magazine the
editorial by ARRL President
David Minster NA2AA
is titled Diversity and
Inclusion: Driving Amateur
Radio’s Growth Michelle Thompson
W5NYV is expected
to touch on diversity issues
in her talk - Past,
Present & Future (What do US
Hams Look Like Today?)
- to the Radio Amateur
Training Planning and
Activities Committee
(RATPAC) WEDNESDAY EDITION: Good morning hamsters. A beautiful sunny day predicted and snow for tomorrow, you have to love New England....Winnebago reveals an electric RV concept with a colossal 125 miles of range...China has a new variant of Covid on it's way over to a city near you.... Video: 'Reviewing the Icom ID-52E 5W D-STAR Transceiver'The ID-52E Dual-Band D-STAR Digital Transceiver has only been available to buy for just a short time, and you may have already purchased one or be in the market to buy one. Together with Bob McCreadie G0FGX and his colleagues at TX Films, Icom UK are pleased to share with you this comprehensive yet simple to understand video which not only provides a great introduction to this radio but also provides many tips on how to use it. In the video Bob: - Demonstrates how to operate
the ID-52E and many of its
features/settings. Watch 'Reviewing the Icom ID-52E 5W D-STAR Transceiver' For more details about the ID-52E Dual-Band D-STAR Digital Transceiver, visit the 'ID-52E Product Page'. Homebrew Heroes Award to be Managed by Ham Radio WorkbenchThe ICQ Amateur/Ham Radio Podcast team has shifted ownership and management of the Homebrew Heroes Award to the Ham Radio Workbench Podcast. “It makes better branding sense for their team to acquire and manage this awards program,” said Frank Howell, K4FMH, of the ICQ Amateur/Ham Radio Podcast team. “Their episode-to-episode content clearly reflects the underlying principles of the Homebrew Heroes Award.” (Howell detailed the change in the January 2 ICQ Podcast.) George Zafiropoulos, KJ6VU, of the Ham Radio Workbench Podcast, said, “We plan to maintain the award into the future.” Speaking on behalf of the Ham Radio Workbench Podcast, Rod Hardman VA3ON, said he was delighted to have a leadership role in the award program. “It’s a perfect fit for what we are about,” he said. The Homebrew Hero Award was the brainchild of Howell during the 2019 Dayton Hamvention®, which was the first time the ICQ Amateur/Ham Radio Podcast team had gathered in person. A few months later, the first award went to Hans Summers, G0UPL, of QRP Labs. Howell said he’ll maintain a connection to the award program as a sponsor. — Thanks to the ICQ Amateur/Ham Radio Podcast Distance Challenge Special Event Set in ArizonaThe Northern Arizona DX Association will hold its third Distance Challenge Special Event at Quartzfest (QF) on January 23 – 29, 2022. The idea behind the event is to see which QF attendee can make the longest-distance portable contact from the Sonoran Desert using whatever radio and antenna they can bring in and set up. If they don’t bring in a radio and antenna, they can still enter by using the special event W7Q communication trailer at QF. The trailer, owned by the Northern Arizona DX Association (NADXA), will have three operating positions that can be used simultaneously — one for SSB, one for FT8, and one for CW. There will be four entry classes. Details are on the NADXA website. Winners will each receive the unique trophy hard hat, sponsored by CABLE-X-PERTS. — Thanks to Distance Challenge Co-chairs Bob Wertz, NF7E, and Ron Gerlak, KG7OH ARES Activates as Wind-Driven Year-End Fire Destroys 1,000 Colorado HomesNine Boulder County (Colorado) Amateur Radio Emergency Services (BCARES) volunteers turned out on December 30, 2021 as the devastating Marshall Fire roared through Superior and (portions of) Louisville, Colorado. Intense winds whipped a grass fire south of Boulder near Marshall into a massive firestorm that became too large and fierce for firefighters to battle. “The only battle was evacuation, as the towns of Louisville and Superior and [the] northern suburbs of Denver lay in the fire’s wind-driven path,” said Amateur TV (ATV) enthusiast and dealer Jim Andrews, KH6HTV, of Boulder. Andrews said the only thing limiting the fire’s spread was the fact that the winds diminished by that evening. “By that time, hundreds of homes had burned down,” Andrews said, whose own house among them. “This was not a typical forest fire, but an urban firestorm.” Thousands of people were evacuated. BCARES Board of Directors Chairman and Region 1, District 3 Emergency Coordinator Allen Bishop, K0ARK, said that a request from the Boulder Office of Emergency Management (OEM) to activate the emergency operations center (EOC) is what initiated the ARES activation. “At that time, staffing was initiated with the activation of the BCARES Radio Network, with three BCARES members assigned to the EOC,” Bishop said. The BCARES Net was promptly activated. ARES volunteers supported communication at evacuation sites and established emergency communication as commercial power failures and preventive shutdowns by utilities caused a loss of commercial communication. “Within about 8 hours,” Bishop said, “battery back-up systems for cell phones and landlines failed, and 911 services went down.” “To facilitate a restoration of these emergency services, BCARES activated the Mountain Emergency Radio Network (MERN),” Bishop said. Established in 2010, MERN consists of repeaters installed at fire stations in Gold Hill and Allenspark, at community centers in Nederland and Raymond, and the privately owned Airlink Repeater. “These repeaters provided the emergency communication links that facilitated the restoration of 911 communications back to the dispatch center for the duration of the power outages,” Bishop explained. The Allenspark Neighbors Emergency Network (ANEN) and Airlink (Alternate Access Radio Network) participated. According to Bishop, as the Marshall Fire expanded, evacuation center support was requested at three locations to provide on-site situation reports using Winlink. Bishop said BCARES members and mutual-aid ARES operators from neighboring Districts established local communication with the BCARES EOC radio position from designated field locations. BCARES was activated for 2 days. As Andrews reported, Boulder County announced on New Year’s Day that nearly 1,000 homes were lost. In addition to his own home, the fire destroyed his daughter’s home next door, as well as the homes of all his close neighbors. “We had no official warning of the coming firestorm,” Andrews said. “My only warning was from our daughter who saw it happening.” No one died as a result of the fire, but, Andrews added, “KH6HTV VIDEO, as a supplier of ATV gear, will be out of operation for a very long time to come.” Andrews edits the monthly Boulder Amateur Television Club TV Repeater’s REPEATER newsletter Amateur Operation in 3.45- 3.5 GHz Segment Must Cease by April 14, 2022The FCC has established April 14, 2022, as the date by which amateur radio transmissions must stop in the upper 3.45 - 3.5 GHz segment of the amateur secondary 9-centimeter band. Secondary operations are permitted to continue indefinitely in the remainder of the band, 3.3 – 3.45 GHz, pending future FCC proceedings. On January 14 the FCC released DA 22-39, which announces the results of Auction 110 for the 3.45 - 3.55 GHz band. Release of this notice triggered FCC rules adopted last year requiring that amateur radio operations between 3.45 GHz and 3.5 GHz cease within 90 days of the public notice. In October 2021, ARRL President Rick Roderick, K5UR, urged Congress to direct the FCC to preserve Amateur Radio’s secondary use of the 3 GHz band in a written statement responding to H.R. 5378, the Spectrum Innovation Act of 2021, before the US House Commerce Communications and Technology Subcommittee. A chronology of actions responding to amateur access on the 3.5 GHz band can be found on the ARRL website. TUESDAY EDITION: We survived the 12 hour wind storm, gusts up to 64mph according to the local weatherman...A California man was the first to be cryogenically frozen. His body is still awaiting revival. Isn't Ted William's head still frozen somewhere? ....I don't think I could get in this car and if I did, probably never get out....Why rocket engines do not melt... RigExpert Stick ProStick Pro is an antenna and cable vector analyzer. The analyzer allows you to measure various parameters of antennas, cables, lines, filters and many others in the frequency range from 100 kHz to 600 MHz. The Stick Pro analyzer has compact size and lightweight, which is great for using the analyzer both in the home and in the field. RigExpert Stick Pro review:
Warranty coverage by the RigExpertCare™ Oswego County Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service (RACES) Presents Emergency Preparedness ProgramMike Regan, of the Oswego County Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service (RACES) presented a program on what RACES is and how it can help our community in emergency situations during a recent Oswego County Local Emergency Planning Committee (LEPC) meeting. The LEPC is a community-based organization that assists in preparing for emergencies, particularly those concerning hazardous materials, and meets quarterly. According to federal statute, LEPCs must develop an emergency response plan, review the plan at least annually, and provide information about hazardous materials in the community to citizens. Mike related the history of RACES and explained how amateur radio could aid the LEPC in severe emergencies. STORY 2022 IDXC cancelledThe following was announced on January 11th, on the IDXC Web page (http://www.dxconvention.org/): It is with regret that the 2022 International DX Convention in Visalia, California, has been cancelled. The convention committee of
the Southern California DX Club
acted in response to the current
covid virus threat. We look
forward to 2023. Those who had
hotel reservations please
contact the hotel to ensure they
are canceled. Respectfully, ALSO READ: http://www.arrl.org/news/2022-international-dx-convention-in-visalia-california-is-cancelled 80m AM Winter ContestSweden's national society SSA
reports that twice a year, an AM
contest is run on 80 meters
(3600-3750 kHz), the next is due
February 5 New batch of AstroPis relieve Ed and Izzy of duty on board the International Space StationA new batch of AstroPi computers are up and running on board the International Space Station (ISS), set-up by ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer.
The units were shown
off in September
2021 and launched
aboard a SpaceX
Dragon 2 freighter
atop a Falcon 9
rocket in December.
They are to replace
the existing AstroPi
units "Ed" and
"Izzy" which have
resided on the ISS
for six years.
Maurer spent
yesterday afternoon
on the ISS setting
up the new kit,
which consists of
Raspberry Pi 4 Model
B hardware, a 12.3MP
camera, and a range
of sensors.
Engineers will
eventually be able
to control the units
from the ground and
upload code
submissions from the
Mission Zero and
Mission Space Lab
programs. Both are
aimed at getting
young people
interested in
coding, with one
teaching
participants how to
write a program to
take a humidity
reading and display
a message (without
swears) to the
astronauts while the
other is a more
complicated
team-based affair.
K1TP- Jon....Editor of As The World Turns.... KA1BXB-Don...Regular on 3928 afternoons....just don't mention politics to him, please! WB1ABC- Ari..Bought an amp and now we can here him on 75 meters, worships his wife, obsessed with Id'ing N1BOW-Phil...Retired broadcast engineer, confused and gullible, cheap, only uses singl ply toilet paper KB1OWO- Larry...Handsome Fellow ,only cuts lawn in August, plows snow the rest in Jackman, Maine W1GEK- Big Mike....Nearfest Cook, big motor home, electronics software engineer ... AA1SB- Neil...Living large traveling the country with his girlfriend...loves CW N1YX- Igor....peddles quality Russian keys, software engineer K1BGH...Art.....Restores cars and radio gear, nice fella... N1XW.....Mike-easy going, Harley riding kind of guy! K1JEK-Joe...Easy going, can be found at most ham flea market ...Cobra Antenna builder.. KA1GJU- Kriss- Tower climbing pilot who cooks on the side at Hosstrader's... W1GWU-Bob....one of the Hosstrader's original organizers, 75 meter regular, Tech Wizard!!! K1PV- Roger....75 meter regular, easy going guy... W1XER...Scott....easy going guy, loves to split cordwood and hunt... KB1VX- Barry- the picture says it all, he loves food! KC1BBU- Bob....the Mud Duck from the Cape Cod Canal, making a lot of noise. W1STS- Scott...philosopher, hat connoisseur, KB1JXU- Matthew...75 meter regular...our token liberal Democrat out of VT K1PEK-Steve..Founder of Davis-RF....my best friend from high school K9AEN-John...Easy going ham found at all the ham fests K1BQT.....Rick....very talented ham, loves his politics, has designed gear for MFJ... W1KQ- Jim- Retired Air Force Controller...told quite a few pilots where to go! N1OOL-Jeff- The 3936 master plumber and ragchewer... K1BRS-Bruce- Computer Tech of 3936...multi talented kidney stone passing ham... K1BGH- Arthur, Cape Cod, construction company/ice cream shop, hard working man.... W1VAK- Ed, Cape Cod, lots of experience in all areas, once was a Jacques Cousteus body guard.... K1BNH- Bill- Used to work for a bottled gas company-we think he has been around nitrous oxide to long W1HHO- Cal...3941 group K1MPM- Pete...3941 group WA1JFX- Russell...3941 group . SILENT KEYS Silent Key
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